Re: Update to CIL

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On 10/23/2013 11:58 AM, James Carter wrote:
On 10/23/2013 11:15 AM, Dominick Grift wrote:
On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 14:20 -0400, James Carter wrote:
I pushed an update of CIL to bitbucket.

I noticed that cilpolicy does not have refpolicies
"selinux_labeled_boolean" interface


This interface causes many problems.

First, when trying to convert Refpolicy to CIL, the conversion program tries to
infer parameter types (language types, not SELinux types). This interface causes
an error because the parameter which is the boolean name is used as both a
string and a boolean.

Second, the conversion program can't recognize general string concatenation
(although it does specifically handle type mangling).

Third, CIL does not allow conversion from one language type to another.

Fourth, CIL does not have the ability to concatenate strings.

All of these problems could probably be worked around, but I would prefer not to
have general string concatenation and language type conversions in CIL.

This is a perfect example of something that a higher-level language could
provide. Although that doesn't help you now.

I tried to implement it myself but i cannot get it to parse ARG2 no
matter what i try

This is what i currently have:

macro:

; Associate the specified type and name with booleans

(macro selinux_labeled_boolean ((type ARG1) (name ARG2))
   (call selinux_boolean_type (ARG1))
   (genfscon "selinuxfs" ARG2 (system_u object_r ARG1 ((s0)
             (s0)))))

call:

(type secure_mode_insmod_t)
(call selinux_labeled_boolean (secure_mode_insmod_t
              "/booleans/secure_mode_insmod"))

result:

# seinfo --genfscon | grep secure_mode_insmod
    genfscon selinuxfs ARG2      system_u:object_r:secure_mode_insmod_t

Is there a work around for this?


Sorry, there is not.

I realize that the nature of cil make these kind of things less useful
but it would have been nice if it worked


I am sorry. I got so caught up in the painful memories of having to deal with the selinux_labeled_boolean interface that I missed what you were actually trying to do.

What you want to do here is quite reasonable and we should make it possible in CIL.

Thanks again for the feedback.

--
James Carter <jwcart2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
National Security Agency

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